“He who believes needs no explanation.”

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

The wisest men follow their own direction.

You will not achieve happiness if you don’t work hard; and it’s a shame not to want to work hard.

My love for you was greater than my wisdom.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Action achieves more than words.

Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

What you do is proof of what you believe.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe.

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.